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FXUS63 KGRB 092145
AFDGRB
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
345 PM CST FRI JAN 9 2026
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR ROUTINE AFTERNOON FORECAST ISSUANCE
KEY MESSAGES
- ACCUMULATING SNOW IS EXPECTED SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. MOST
PLACES SHOULD GET BETWEEN A HALF INCH AND 2 INCHES OF SNOW, BUT
HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES AND IN
VILAS COUNTY.
- A WEAK CLIPPER SYSTEM WILL BRING A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW
ACCUMULATIONS TO NORTHERN WISCONSIN SUNDAY NIGHT. A SECOND
STRONGER CLIPPER COULD PRODUCE LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS REGIONWIDE
LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY NIGHT, WITH ADDITIONAL SNOW
CONTINUING OVER NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN DUE TO LAKE-EFFECT ON
WEDNESDAY. GUSTY NORTH WINDS COULD OCCUR ON WEDNESDAY.
- AFTER A BRIEF COOL DOWN OVER THE WEEKEND, TEMPERATURES WILL
REBOUND TO ABOVE NORMAL EARLY NEXT WEEK, THEN FALL AGAIN INTO
MIDWEEK.
DISCUSSION
ISSUED AT 345 PM CST FRI JAN 9 2026
SUBSIDENCE BEHIND A DEPARTING SHORT-WAVE AND INCOMING HIGH
PRESSURE RIDGE, COMBINED WITH DOWNSLOPING NORTHWEST WINDS, HAVE
CAUSED LOW CLOUDS TO GRADUALLY ERODE OVER CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL
WI THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT THIS TREND TO CONTINUE OVER NORTHERN WI
EARLY THIS EVENING. WV IMAGERY SHOWED A NORTHERN STREAM SHORT-WAVE
APPROACHING FROM THE EASTERN DAKOTAS, WITH A SOUTHERN STREAM
UPPER LOW LIFTING NORTHEAST FROM THE OK PANHANDLE.
AFTER A QUICK DROP IN TEMPERATURES THIS EVENING, EXPECT TEMPS TO
STEADY OUT OVERNIGHT AS THICKER HIGH/MID CLOUDS ARRIVE. SOME
MODELS WERE SUGGESTING FOG DEVELOPMENT OVER NC WI OVERNIGHT, BUT
GIVEN THE EXPECTED CLOUD TRENDS, THIS SHOULD BE PATCHY AND NOT AS
IMPACTFUL AS THE PREVIOUS FEW DAYS. LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP IN OUR WESTERN COUNTIES LATE TONIGHT, AS THE CLIPPER AND
ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT ARRIVES. A DUSTING COULD OCCUR BY DAYBREAK.
SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT SNOWFALL... UNCERTAINTY REMAINS IN
SNOWFALL AMOUNTS DUE TO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN HOW THE MODELS
HANDLE PHASING OF THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STREAM SYSTEMS. MOST
OF THE 12Z MODELS SUGGEST THAT THE NORTHERN STREAM CLIPPER AND
ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL SHIFT JUST EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA
BEFORE SIGNIFICANT PHASING OCCURS ON SATURDAY. THIS WOULD PUSH
THE MORE SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS NORTHEAST OF GRB CWA AND INTO
THE CENTRAL U.P. AND NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN, WITH PERHAPS SOME
DECENT SNOW AMOUNTS OCCURRING OVER DOOR COUNTY. THE ECMWF AND
CANADIAN MODELS CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY SNOW OVER PARTS OF
EASTERN WI. WILL SIDE WITH THE LESS IMPACTFUL SOLUTIONS RIGHT NOW,
WITH MOST PLACES ONLY GETTING AN INCH OR TWO OF SNOW, WITH
LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS IN VILAS AND DOOR COUNTIES. OVERALL
CONFIDENCE REMAINS LOW, WHICH IS INHERENT WITH ANY PHASING SYSTEM.
GIVEN THIS UNCERTAINTY, WILL HOLD OFF ON ANY HEADLINES THIS
AFTERNOON, EVEN THOUGH THE CURRENT SNOWFALL FORECAST SUPPORTS AN
ADVISORY OVER DOOR COUNTY.
FORECAST BEYOND SATURDAY NIGHT...
A WEAK CLIPPER SYSTEM WILL BRUSH THROUGH NORTHERN WI SUNDAY NIGHT,
AND COULD BRING LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS AND SLIPPERY ROADS THERE. A
SECOND STRONGER CLIPPER ARRIVES LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND IMPACTS THE
REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ACCUMULATING SNOW IS EXPECTED OVER MUCH
OF THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT, WITH ADDITIONAL
ACCUMULATIONS DUE TO LAKE-EFFECT EXPECTED OVER NORTH CENTRAL WI
ON WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER SYSTEM ARRIVES THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY,
BUT DETAILS ARE SKETCHY THIS FAR OUT.
TEMPERATURES COOL DOWN A BIT THIS WEEKEND, THEN WARM TO ABOVE
NORMAL AGAIN EARLY NEXT WEEK. A DECENT SURGE OF COLDER AIR AND
GUSTY NORTH WINDS FOLLOWS THE MIDWEEK CLIPPER SYSTEM, LEADING TO
COOLER TEMPERATURES FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WORK WEEK.
AVIATION
FOR 18Z TAF ISSUANCE
ISSUED AT 1142 AM CST FRI JAN 9 2026
LOW CLOUDS WERE ERODING OVER EAST CENTRAL WI, AND THIS TREND IS
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE REGIONWIDE DUE TO SUBSIDENCE/DRYING IN THE
WAKE OF THE DEPARTING SHORT-WAVE AND INCOMING HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE.
HIGH AND MID-LEVEL CLOUDS WILL INCREASE BY EVENING AHEAD OF AN
INCOMING CLIPPER SYSTEM, AND THIS MAY PREVENT WIDESPREAD FOG/LOW
STRATUS FROM FORMING OVERNIGHT. THE CLIPPER WILL BRING LIGHT SNOW
TO THE REGION, STARTING LATE TONIGHT IN NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL
WI, AND SATURDAY MORNING IN EASTERN WI. FLIGHT CONDITIONS WILL
LIKELY DROP TO MVFR/IFR AS THIS OCCURS.
GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DIMINISH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON, BECOME
LIGHT AND VARIABLE TONIGHT, THEN WESTERLY 5 TO 10 KTS AFTER A
COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING.
GRB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
NONE.
DISCUSSION.....KIECKBUSCH
AVIATION.......KIECKBUSCH
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